Digital BW, The Print

I was using the curves supplied with QTR, the ones made 
> by Jon's studio, so the it shouldn't have been my incompetence in
making curves that 
> caused the problems.

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That was very interesting Mark and I appreciate the feed back. I
haven't talked to anyone doing exactly this, though I know a lot of
people must be.

It isn't a problem with your incompetence because you sound 
experienced. I believe the problem is the variation in the older
printers. The supplied curves with the 7000 were ok, but not great for
me. Everything was a bit flat with them. I was just about to set it up
with Studio Print too. However, I talked to Roy and then my 7000 was
linearized using icc create and custom curves for MY machine and a few
papers. When I did this it was a totally different output. This should
be done with any printers but these 7000's just vary so much that this
is totally mandatory. I belive Jon found that out with the 1280's too
which is why they started that IQuad thing making people custom curves.

Surely you are making custom linearizations and reading all the
patches with Studio Print? If so that is what the difference is I'm
sure. The newer printers like the 2200 and the 9600 are very close but
not perfect. They should be custom linearized too. The 10K's are very
different from unit to unit. It's funny though. Some people have
better luck with different rips on different machines. Bill Kennedy
started working with K7 on a 2200 early on and he said he had much
better results with the Bauhaus rip. Whatever works is is whatever
works I guess.

John